Vito Acconci Movies

"Super-8 camera held out before him as shield and surrogate, Acconci pushes through a landscape of dense reeds and overgrowth. Break-Through records...

Three-part short film. In 'Blindfold Catching', a blindfolded Acconci reacts, flinching and lunging, as rubber balls are repeatedly thrown at him...

"In another exploration of nonverbal communication, the camera moves back and forth, each time catching one of Acconci's hands in an expressive...

In the late 1960s, Vito Acconci abandoned poetry in order to work with the body and its relationship with space, although he did retain a commitment...

"Acconci caresses his torso, then crushes cockroaches into his stomach and rubs them into his skin." - Electronic Arts Intermix

"A view of a brick wall: the artist enters and walks from one side to the other, back and forth, row after row." - Electronic Arts Intermix

The artist, sitting naked, takes water from a pot into his mouth and gargles; he spits it out onto his stomach and groin, transferring the water from...

A five minute super-8mm short from Vito Acconci

A super-8mm short by Vito Acconci

A three and a half minute Super-8mm piece on concentration/contemplation by Vito Acconci.

Contacts is one of a series of tapes in which Acconci creates a controlled performance situation to explore the limits of a private space. Applying...

A documentation of a live performance at New York University, Pryings is a graphic exploration of the physical and psychological dynamics of...

"In Scene Steal, Acconci, fully clothed, tries to shield a nude woman from the camera. In Container, he wraps his nude body around a cat as if to...

A woman kisses Acconci's body, covering him in red lipstick traces. Acconci then rubs his body against another man (Dennis Oppenheim), transferring...

A super-8mm work documenting Acconci's audio installation piece in the Sonnabend gallery in 1972 of the same name.

Steeped in black humor, this concise political critique is Acconci's contribution to artist Jenny Holzer's collaborative Sign on a Truck project,...

Acconci lies naked on a gurney-like table, rocking back and forth as a tape-loop of his voice describes his anxieties about exposing his body and his...